Owners Back Interleague Play

January 18, 1996

Major league club owners on Thursday unanimously approved interleague play for the 1997 season, John Harrington, Boston Red Sox chief executive officer, said. The proposal is subject to the approval of the Major League Baseball Players Association. The plan calls for 15-16 interleague games for each team, scheduled around Memorial Day and Labor Day. "This is an idea that obviously merits series consideration, and we will give it that," union head Donald Fehr said before the vote in Los Angeles. "We have to take a look at anything that will be beneficial to the game."